A map of North America, & the West India Islands, with part of South America, Europe, Africa & the Atlantic Ocean with it's islands
A map of North America, & the West India Islands, with part of South America, Europe, Africa & the Atlantic Ocean with its islands
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A map of North America, & the West India Islands, with part of South America, Europe, Africa & the Atlantic Ocean with it's islands
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Manuscript map in pen, ink and wash color depicting political boundaries and possessions after the 1763 Treaty of Paris. Drawn by Benjamin Webb, a merchant and sometime schoolmaster active in London, England and later Basel, Switzerland in the mid- to late 18th century.
Includes table of The latitude of some principal place in Europe &c.
Some islands in the West Indies also labeled with length of the island, length of coastline, island dimensions, or changes from the 1763 Treaty of Paris.
Likely based on German sources.